I regularly go off to the WOMAD festival and with proper bloke-ish packing techniques the boot can take a four-man tent, tent poles, sleeping bags, sleeping mats, table, chairs, gas bottle, cooker, food, water, clothes, coats, wellies, beer, wine and the obligatory festival jester's hat! No room for anything bought at the festival though, as we realised a few years back when my passenger had a 200 mile trip with a floor-standing bongo between her legs!